WordPress theme comparison
Sidebar vs Sydney
At a glance
- Sydney has more active installs: 80K+, against 60+ for Sidebar.
- On a typical day, Sydney is downloaded about 643 times, Sidebar about 0.
- Sidebar is rated higher: 5.0 out of 5 from 1 review, against 4.9 from 795 reviews.
- Sydney was updated more recently: Nov 9, 2026, against Aug 24, 2020 for Sidebar.
- Sydney has been around longer: since 2015, against 2018 for Sidebar.
Line by line
Sydney leads on 3 of 4 comparable lines.
From WordPress.org's public data, refreshed every night. Downloads are WordPress.org's official daily figures for the last 30 days.
Tags they share
- Top Custom background themes
- Top Custom colors themes
- Top Custom header themes
- Top Custom logo themes
- Top Custom menu themes
- Top Featured images themes
- Top Footer widgets themes
- Top Full width template themes
- Top Right sidebar themes
- Top Sticky post themes
- Top Theme options themes
- Top Threaded comments themes
- Top Translation ready themes
- Top Two columns themes
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